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 I negotiated with Lake for the Live8 negotiation. This was a different negotiation because we did not meet face to face. We first emailed each other to set up how we would like to negotiate. We decided to go through text. This was easier for us because most college students are on their phones anyways. This was different because you could not see their face. You were not able to see if they were thinking about what you were negotiating about. We also did not show each other our prompts so we were just hoping what we were going on was correct. Pros were that it was easy due to being able to text everything and not having to talk to them face to face. Some cons were that since we weren’t able to talk face to face, we could not see our faces.  The article is relevant to the Live8 negotiation because it talks about negotiating over a different platform and not in person. The article talks about how todays day in age is mostly online. There is not much face to face within corporat...

Cultural dimensions summarize the extent to which cultural groups are found empirically to differ from one another in terms of psychological such as values, and beliefs.  I feel as though I am more collectivist. I prefer to participate in a group rather than be by myself. I am more of a people person and don't prefer to work along so with some of the population of an average American I would consider myself more collectivist. I would also consider myself egalitarian. I consider everyone to be equal and not a grade scale of Americans. I actually don't prefer when other people look down on others or when they look at people different because they may be less fortunate than others. I sometimes feel that I am a little different when it comes to the average American.  There are multiple weaknesses that are mentioned. I feel that I fall into some of those categories. I also feel that some of those weaknesses, I have learned to make a strength of mine now. 

 This past week we did a team and group negotiation with the Newtown Schools Negotiation. I was in class the week before where we met with our group to see what needed to be done. We had to agree on what our interests were. We drew up a plan on what needed to be address and what our resistance point was. This took time because we all had to agree upon what needed to be done and what needed to say. We drew up a word document with our interests and the schools interests.  Unfortunately I was not able to attend class on Wednesday due to personal issues.